a decorated cia veteran and the man who first confirmed america's tortured detainees gets years in jail over his leaks and explains why it's him and not the torture is to take the full. exactly two years after gyptian started a revolution that would bring down hosni mubarak they're in the streets again protesting just as fiercely against the islamist regime that replaced the toppled president. and sanctions the korean peninsula to the brink of war with pyongyang vowing to attack what it called the south if he joins in with fresh international restrictions. and a rowdy russian flights where it wasn't just the plane that was flying fists were

to win a boozed up business from the start of the scrap in the sky and even threatening to kill the pilots and force an emergency landing. around the world online on screen life from the new center here in moscow this is o.t. with you twenty four hours a day a cia veteran who oversaw the capture of al qaida the third in command has been sentenced to thirty months in jail for leaking classified intelligence john kerry who was the first to blow the whistle on washington's torture program revealing the name of an alleged torture at guantanamo bay and its get more details on his predicament now with artie's going to. gather this man was sentenced under a very obscure law we understand one that hasn't been used to convict anyone for twenty seven. well exactly bill so the cia veteran

the former chief of counterterrorism operations in pakistan john kiriakou will spend thirty months in prison for leaking the identity of an agent but before he was prosecuted mr had been actively speaking out against torture and now he and his supporters believe that he was prosecuted for coming clean over torture practices in the cia it started with an investigation into how military defense attorneys at guantanamo bay obtained the names and photographs of cia personnel authorities eventually tracked down one name back to reporter who had spoken to mr katie arkell a subsequent search of the e-mail on to the computer then showed he had divulged the information about the role of a specific cia officer in those interrogations to a reporter rather than risk a far longer prison term and because he could no longer afford his legal fees since he could actually get colder agreed to plead guilty to one of the five charges against him that is violating the intelligence identities protection act by

e-mailing a name of a cia covert cia officer to a freelance reporter who never even published it there's something very disturbing about this case had john kiriakou actually engaged in torture he wouldn't be in any trouble at all even he'd never he never even would have been investigated but because he talked about torture with reporters he's going to prison the fact of the matter is that the u.s. government has classified everything related to its torture practices which means nobody can be prosecuted for human rights violations that were systematically committed at guantanamo bay from here it's looks like from what it looks like from mr get out his perspective take a listen. and you were tortured and beaten. but i'm getting to prison while the torture is in the lawyers people who root and the people who deceived and the man who destroyed the tapes will never see these changes and that's the saddest part of

the story. this is ministration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other combat administrations combined while protecting those who have committed torture who have ordered torture behind this wall of classification contrary to popular belief of president obama didn't stop the united states from torturing he just stopped it from torturing on his watch through an executive order which means that the us could be only another executive order away from some other president or vice president deciding to torture again going to thanks very much indeed for that update live there from washington or he's going to check on that. well the thirty month sentence that's being talked about is part of john kiriakou plea deal but the judge could still refuse to settle for that meaning he could potentially face far great to jail time as for the accusations cia officer right mcgovern believes them to be political he's being punished out of range hypocrisy.

look at the chronology here in two thousand and seven john kiriakou came out very loudly against torture as being not worthy of the united states and not efficient not a way to get information what happened well the instructions were to get people to confess confess to what confessed to the existence of weapons of mass destruction in iraq confess to the existence of operational ties between al qaeda and saddam hussein it was all a crock they had to make this stuff but you can't get real flyable information from torture but you know what torture works beautifully if you want unreliable information and so they kind you know not only tires not only weapons of mass destruction but ties between iraq and al qaeda and it was a masterful propaganda performance on the part of the united states on the part of

the u.k. . a vital anti terror weapon or a deadly threat to civilians. u.n. investigators look into whether the use of drone strikes many by the u.s. could amount to war crimes that's coming your way very shortly the sound of the. first dozens of people being injured in clashes in and around car those iconic tell here square on the second anniversary of the start of the egyptian revolution people want there to celebrate their running against the new government and scuffling with police who try to keep them a bank account authorities were brought to power by the eight hundred they are promising that toppled the longstanding rule of hosni mubarak but two years on egyptians aren't seeing much change in skara based journalist bell true reports. we have seen violent scenes already across our country to my right here just by some key government buildings like the cabinet building caches continues between security forces and the incest is going to seem

a lot tougher now had reports of street battles i mean any second city alexandria between security forces and demonstrators two years ago people came to the streets of a right to put up with the injustice so to talk about it regime here we are today i am people are back on the streets saying they see no change i seem to be basing they authorized you guys that have been a main subjects of people about being you want to me because population i'm not going to the poverty line if this isn't going to be seen as a point of contention here to stop the fighting to mr rankin sixty seventy that is not representative of egypt right behind me it's a fine seems we're not out of a tree seems people say they will not leave until president obama no see makes the changes they want. and your political analyst winnie mandela says that the government in egypt hasn't listened to the population that. well the problem is this is a minority of the muslim brotherhood it's the best organized force in the country after the toppling of. the and it's backed by by washington by the obama

administration which gives them additional clout the problem is they just ram through a constitution that in effect what's happening is the muslim brotherhood is establishing islamic dictatorship i think they're so preoccupied with this sure real agenda this is a llama sation look reading this just heard a state which the fact all those years are merging to be in islam it sasha but i would carry a regime that will regulate every corner of life and they're less concerned evidently with the real function of the common be so that. you probably need to right now. a terror attack alarm in libya's second largest city three european governments call for the immediate evacuation of their citizens amid fears the city could be ripped apart by terror attacks soon more on that in a few minutes. career is warning of war saying it will attack south korea if its neighbor takes part in fresh u.n. sanctions eltham eighteen months

a third day of fairy rhetoric with pyongyang previously involving more nuclear and ballistic tests james corbet editor of a japan based news website says the region is on the brink. joining it is an absolute wildcard in this whole situation and it really is just an irrational actor in the whole scene there it's been years now of carrots and sticks and neither of them seem to have any effect there seems to be periods of relative quiet and then periods of panic and threats and violence threats of violence and so far that it's failed to materialize into into very much on the korean peninsula but of course it's always possible that some sort of some incident could come out of this i don't think anyone even the north koreans really want to see that but i think it is a way of keeping focus on the region and keeping people coming back to the table with north korea but i don't think north korea is ultimately going to be the the actor that will have to be involved for a solution to this i think this is going to have to involve china at some point

because they are the ones that are keeping north korea on an economic leash and a lifeline. the world's movers and shakers seek a solution to the global financial abyss that the devils economic forum this week while millions of dollars are being spent on making their stay in the glitzy ski resort comfortable that is coming up later this hour. the first alcohol and airplanes is often a dangerous mix and so it proved for one high rolling russian businessman he's hit the headlines after a booze fuelled brawl at thirty thousand feet he got this kind of tells the tale of my madness. it started out as an ordinary flights to one of the popular holiday destinations for many russians egypt so you can imagine the passengers are sitting there in their seats visualizing how they're going to be sunbathing just in a couple of hours but then suddenly there is then is interrupted by one very troubled passenger. this man there we go appears to have had a little bit too much visualisation if you know what i mean started smoking in

a laboratory then he attacked one of the passengers so the flight attendant tried stopping him he started attacking the flight attendant and he announced that he's a former member of the swat team he's also said that he was a member of the deputy of the city duma a businessman all these things in one he was actually warned that his actions could be taken as a hijacking of the plane he said he didn't care he threatened that he was going to kill all the passengers on the plane he said that he could do it with just his two fingers and then he said that he was going to try to land the plane himself on a water so the plane did land and. the staff staff passed him over to a local police in egypt but he was traveling with his wife and a three year old daughter who he held up and when he was detained the police well basically released him just in a matter of minutes without actually pressing any charges but the good thing the police in russia are now waiting for him to come back since they do have the video they do have reports from all the witnesses so the story's not over yet but this

does bring us to the question of how much alcohol should be given to passengers because this is far from the only case of flights erupting on board of flights and in some cases the passengers duty you have to take it in their own hands to calm the passengers down like the one incident when the passengers were also with the passenger was also quite aggressive they had to duct tape the guy to his seat spent the entire transatlantic flight from iceland to the states like that but it's not always bad sometimes good things happen like this bill on board a flight i don't know if alcohol was involved in this case but i guess if it was it wouldn't be that bad if every time it happened like that. extraordinary story that another standoff but this time on the ground russian lawmakers move closer to an anti gay for motion bill while activists both for and against scuffle outside parliament made arguments the motion is an attack on freedoms that's all for

a short break stay with us is adultery life in moscow. he.

i. he continues here in british german and dutch authorities have called on the citizens to evacuate immediately from libya's second largest city of benghazi its fate it could seem be the target of an attack similar to the one in neighboring algeria that resulted in dozens of hostage deaths well for more on that i'm now joined by geo political analyst patrick henningsen watching these warnings and what did you do the authorities fear that foreigners might be a primary target i think it's natural to to have that fear we've had

a number of. serious incidents in libya and also in neighboring algeria recently so yes it would definitely be off limits for foreigners but also we also have to look at the situation in libya you have to look at it in the context of what is happening year ago which is the regime was overthrown and we have a heavy western corporate and also military connected presence in that country so the situation in libya what happened in benghazi as well a few months ago there's a lot going on in libya and some that's just beginning to be flushed out right now what about what's going on in libya will that instability and violence that continues where will the situation go from here. well in the short term you know it's really important i believe that you know that the media and the consumers of

the media and also people working in government policy need to understand cause and effect because this is also it's a not very popular to look at the fact that what happened in libya with the instability the destabilization we see right now is a direct result of the nato policies that brought about the situation there with the overthrow of khadafi and they also have to take europe has to take responsibility as well as america for the spread of any islamic extremism into the neighboring countries and that is happening right now as we speak but what about that extremism in libya do you think radical elements could get a much stronger foothold than now. well you know the radical elements in libya have had a strong foothold there for quite some time the libyan islamic fighting group which is headed up by the viceroy of tripoli is hakim a doorbell hodge this is somebody who was it mysteriously released from guantanamo

bay only a few years ago and he was coordinating directly with nato and is also connected with sending is libyan islamic fighters to syria and they are operating in syria right now this group was founded of mujahideen veterans who had fought the soviet union in afghanistan so this group was put together in ninety five in working out a training camps partly in libya and often other coffees as well and they do have a historical connection to the western intelligence agencies and those agencies were working with during the nato overthrow of that country so you know we really have to look at these connections and not divorce them something already touched upon the fact that many blaming nato backing that may be in revolt for what's happening in the region what are the chances of all this returning to wreak even more havoc there in libya. well it's also important you know the libya was not

a revolution a year ago it was far from it and what it was was it was a nato in a joint venture with a proxy guerilla force that did also include foreign fighters and military out that from possibly some of the gulf states like could talk are look the situation needs to be looked at as historical context so the i believe that what happened in benghazi there are there are rumors that were floating around recently that x. could off the chemical weapons box were being shipped over to syria and were going to be used to blame assad for using chemical weapons and always we saw retraction out of the able to the u.s. consulate in istanbul only a few weeks ago that was trying to retract from that story they would seem to be going forward with before christmas and also need to come back so ok that's

a law that's connected with main gazi so in the again we have a situation in mali and algeria next door which is connected as well with these jihadists in libya and it's pressure and it's and thanks very much for your thoughts live there in dubai. and another counterterrorism effort by the u.s. is under the microscope the u.n. has launched an inquiry into the legality of using drones worldwide the investigation comes amid rising concern that the flurry of what's dubbed the anti terrorist strikes a done little to protect civilians or other rights activists suggest in pakistan alone a quarter of those killed by cia drone attacks are innocent bystanders bodies and started checking the reports. what we have going on is a group of top notch international law specialist spearheaded by the un special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism launching this investigation into the drone attacks carried out by the united states in recent years they're going to be looking into the drone strikes taking place over somalia yemen of get a stand pakistan and the actions of israel when it comes to the occupied

territories the group plans to look into from twenty to thirty specific strikes one of the areas they're going to concentrate on are the so-called double tap strikes where rescuers for example people running to save victims of a drone strike were attacked by a follow up or people going to funerals this is been something that's been a big concern lately with dozens of people dying in those incidents so this is what they're going to look into this is something that's going to last a while they will look into the numbers of casualties the identities of casualties and really the legal liabilities that might follow and this is something that we're not really expecting any kind of legal serious accusations to come out of but one of the things they're looking into is whether or not work crime is a term that can be used a very strong term so this is something that we're going to have to find out when this report as finally revealed in the months to come well is what prompted this investigation is of course growing concerns that the increased attacks killing

civilians and children on the ground this is something that's been a big concern for years this is something that's causing huge anti-american sentiment in places like yemen specifically where recently in the latest drone strike two children were killed and we saw a group of countries russia china and pakistan addressed the u.n. human rights council and saying look we need to investigate this further so this investigation is now being launched and it's also you know the numbers really speaking for themselves one hundred seventy eight children died just in yemen in recent years eight hundred ninety one civilian since the year two thousand and four just in pakistan so this is something that needs to be addressed and the goal of this particular investigation is exactly that. so if you check in there russian lawmakers have passed the first reading of a bill which bans the promotion of homosexuality among children the legislature has already been dubbed by its opponents as anti gay and today provoked scuffles outside parliament as you know nina is here to explain why the bill has sparked so

much anger. so the motion is one step closer to becoming more tell us more about what the gay community in this country now thinks about this bill well essentially bill there are virulently against the bill essentially deals with attempting to ban the so-called promotion of homosexuality among children as you say there was the first reading of the bill today after some delays and we saw violence a number of days ago happening between those for the bill and those against it we also saw more today outside the state duma what we saw was as gay supporters gay rights supporters be attempted to essentially have their say. hold a kiss in our side parliament where believed to be attacked with with eggs and green paint by what looked like supporters of the russian orthodox church they were holding. placards and crosses this has been a long time in the making such

a thing it's led for activists really to to call for the reading to be defined because we really don't know what the bill is stating at the moment and that is the issue with the gay community they are asking for it to be much more defined as to as to what it in tails. it is worth noting at this time homosexuality was outlawed during the soviet times it became law. again during one thousand nine hundred three and after that it became still stigmatized to a certain degree it is all of this years decades really in the making that is led to to this to the violence that we saw today. some twenty people being arrested we believe one person was attacked but twenty people on both sides were arrested is the details that we know at the moment bill artie's union o'neil thanks very much for that. the plight of the global economy fueled by europe's long running debt

woes all of this is being poured over at this year's financial forum at the flash ski resort of davos but just how much money is being spent to organize the gathering which is filled on the side with switch parties and lavish dinners auntie's kitty pilgrim has cleared this up for us. here in davos there's lots of rich powerful people swarming around in design a system pretty much telling the average citizen of the world that they need to be reigning in their spending while they themselves sit expensive champagne and dine on scrawny kind of beers which to me seems rather which in deede you've also got companies here that are laying people off in the thousands pepsi for example they are here and they just laid off more than eight thousand people and if you very mind it costs about two hundred to three hundred thousand dollars for a ticket to the davos economic four we've also got citi group as well and they too have laid off more than eleven thousand just gives you an idea of what companies are spending their money on and are they spending it on the right things we've also

got e.c.b. president mario said ok essentially putting his fellow leaders on the spot because he says that the economic situation in europe is better than last year well that's pretty ironic when you consider the fact that we've got protests ongoing in greece banks unemployment historical highs of sixty percent that really sent shivers down the spines here in davos yesterday prices just posted is most wise it is doesn't sound too good it it's already does it and all of all this talk about money and how much davos is going to cost we're talking one hundred eighty five million dollars that's going to be spent here the davos forum which described by the along to boris johnson as a consolation of egos involved in all ages of our generation i know sometimes he can be quite out that but in this instance you know what i think i agree with boris what he's in davos more from davos throughout the day here in our team the tough times are pushing people in the u.k.

to make hard decisions and more and more families are taking out so-called payday loans with huge interest rates to put money in their pockets all to the surface so what's pushing people to turn to these companies. payday loans tools have become a common sight in britain's towns and cities with the threat of a triple dip recession hanging over them more and more cash strapped families are looking for a quick way to make ends meet with a loan from one go dot com you can borrow up to one thousand pounds for up to thirty one days the northeast in particular has seen a big increase recently in the number of payday loans that are popping up on the high street is that here in this part of the sunderland you can see there's not just one of these payday loan stalls but right next door to. this area is one of the poorest in the u.k. and when you take a closer look at these stores promises of instant cash they come with sky high interest rates. the working providing death advice they've known what takes just

moments to approve can lead to years of debt misery what happens is if i haven't got the money at the end of the month to be a repeat of course it will continue on and then we're going. to try and pay off the period. saw the most try one go first go on to quick witted want to do you q and it's just a never ending cycle we went through one of the representatives of leading payday loan providers and why the industry seems to be lending so irresponsibly it doesn't make any sense to lend to somebody who can't afford to pay you back so the members i represent spend an awful lot of investment in the best technology to make the best assessment of somebodies affordability but these are areas of the united kingdom that some of the poorest communities so that seems quite targeted why are they choosing these areas where you'd expect that people wouldn't be able to pay

back that money what you're finding is these members are setting up in secondary high streets where the rates are lower they're also setting up where there's a demand the government says it's conducting an extensive review of the payday lending sector with this site on tighter regulation but in the meantime and dave has some clear advice for anyone thinking about taking out a payday loan nor. for new or avoid them. so artie reporting from sunderland. that brings up today for the moment i'll be back with the news team and more free in just over a huff an hour from now in the meantime cross talk with peter navarro is next.

right wing t.v. host glenn beck is going to build his own utopia beck plans to put together a massive social experiment building his own city which will be totally independent from the evil grasp of government and the outside world where residents will have to learn how to survive on their own make their own things and grow their own food the future city called independence usa will be based on libertarian principles with hints of iran flavor there will be no handouts and no help for the self-sufficiency minded residents but back may need some help himself because building the city could cost about two billion dollars the thing is that commentators about politics like glenn beck and horse truly have a very easy job and it's easy to point out what is wrong with society but it is another thing entirely to try to change it and i want to salute clint beck for actually doing something and putting his money where his ideological mouth is now why would i want to live in the i and rand.